Last Friday was our club's September game night. I played in Mark D's warm-up game for next month's Salerno Iron Cross game day. You can read more about
Mark's gaming on his blog. Mark's battle pits his free French vs. the Germans in a meeting engagement. Mark's terrain, vehicles and figures are beautiful and all painted by Mark himself.
Bob and I were the Germans, Ed and Michael were the French. This game EVERYONE started out with hot dice. Stuff was dying fast. Mortars hit first time, every time. This photo to the left shows what happens when the dice are this hot and you're daring enough to assume that they'll stay that way. Ed charged a single squad of bazooka-armed French infantry around to the German rear, waded through the hail of defensive fire, blew up a German 8-rad armored car, rallied off all it's hits, then took another run at the Panzer IV which escaped only due to additional defensive fire taken by the heroic French.
Many laughs were had - good fun. Congratulations for a well played game by Michael and Ed. Extra points for style.
Phil ran a game of Gauls vs. Romans using
Ralph's Hannibal at the Gates rules. From what I heard this was a back-and-forth game with the Romans having early success and the Gauls surging late once their veteran units got stuck in.
Greg put on a beautiful Great Northern War game, featuring his lovely terrain and beautiful figures (see close-up). This game finished sooner than mine, so I didn't get a proper AAR from it. Apologies!
Mark has another write-up and more photos of this on his blog,
My Brave Fusiliers.
Rob and Kevin stopped by to say 'hi' but couldn't stay to game.
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2 comments:
Looks like a lot of fun!
Nice report, AJ—of course it helps that the troops sent on the one-way “bazooka boogie” were Free French colonials; as audacious as expendable.
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